Given low survival rates in cases of
traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), there
is a need to identify factors associated with outcomes.
We aimed to investigate Utstein factors associated with
achieving return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and
survival to hospital in traumatic OHCA.
he Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest
Registry (VACAR) was used to identify cases of
traumatic OHCA that received attempted resuscitation
and occurred between July 2008 and June 2014. We
excluded cases aged < 16 years or with a mechanism
of hanging or drowning.
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